![]() ![]() Friends and family wrote often, and I was amazed at how accounts of the same incidents and people were often so different." Letter writing was the way we kept in touch. "There was no such thing as e-mail then," the author says, "and the telephone was rarely used - it was expensive and calls had to be booked. His house and garden became the model for Hillcrest, the Purcell sisters' family home in the four-part series.Īnother influence came later, when Ruth Elwin Harris emigrated to Canada at the age of twenty-one. ![]() To escape the wartime bombing, she and her brother were sent to live with their grandfather in rural Somerset, England. Friends and family wrote often, and I was amazed at how accounts of the Ruth Elwin Harris says that her historic quartet of novels, THE SISTERS OF THE QUANTOCK HILLS, had its beginnings while she was growing up during World War II. ![]() Another influence came later, when Ruth Elwin Harris emigrated to Canada at the age of twenty-one. His house and garden became the model for Hillcrest, the Purcell sisters' family home in the four-part series. Ruth Elwin Harris says that her historic quartet of novels, THE SISTERS OF THE QUANTOCK HILLS, had its beginnings while she was growing up during World War II. ![]()
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